Masked attacker sought in fatal stabbing of couple outside their New York City home

A masked attacker was being sought by New York City police Thursday night in connection with the stabbing deaths of a couple who was apparently ambushed as they arrived home from work on Wednesday evening, officials said.

Stephenson Bonaparte, 65, and his wife, Hazel Brown, 59, were both stabbed multiple times around 6:40 p.m. at their home near Brooklyn's Prospect Park, police said.

Police officials said they do not suspect the killings were random, but declined to elaborate.

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Surveillance video shows the daughter of a murdered couple approaching a neighbor's home to ask for help in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Feb. 7, 2018.

The couple owned King Solomon religious supply shop about two miles from their Winthrop Street home in a normally quiet Prospect-Lefferts Gardens neighborhood.

The couple's 31-year-old daughter, who lives in a unit above her parents home, told police she heard a commotion and when she went downstairs she found her mother lying motionless inside the house and a masked intruder standing over her, officials said. Police officers who responded to the scene discovered Bonaparte dead outside the house.

Brown was stabbed in the neck and torso, police said.

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Hillary Favigny says that the daughter of the victims of a double-stabbing came to her home on the night of the attack, Feb. 7, 2018 in the Brooklyn borough of New York.